LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Minimal Pair, Alveolar Consonant, Distinctive Feature
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/p/ -> [p] and /ph/ -> [ph] in hindi. Phonological system: english: when to know when to pronounce it, /p/ becomes aspirated at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable, output is a phonetic representation ([ ])while lexicon is a phonemic representation (/ /) In hindi, in the phonemic representation, you have the ph because represented to two different sounds. If two sounds are in complementary distribution, they are : allophones of one phoneme: distribution: 2 phones can be in, contrastive distribution, complementary distribution, free variation. Looking at data for sounds [x] and [y: step 1, minimal pairs (one letter is different but the pronunciation must be different not identical) If yes: contrastive distribution, substituting one phone for the other causes a contrast in meaning, separate phoneme. If no: examine the environment, do they occur in the same environment, button.
